NZ Ministry Downplays Meningococcal Vax Link With CFS.

October 23, 2006

Ministry downplays link between vaccine and ME Monday October 23, 2006 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1 & objectid=10407140 The Ministry of Health says vaccines are not linked to the rare condition chronic fatigue syndrome, but it is monitoring developments in Norway, where recipients of a meningococcal B vaccine are being studied for a possible link. The vaccine was given to more than 130,000 teenagers in the late 1980s in Norwegian trials and was the parent of the vaccine against the epidemic strain of meningococcal disease in New Zealand. It was used in trials in New

Zealand, but not in the mass vaccination programme in which more than 1 million young people have been vaccinated, the ministry says. After a payout by Norway's patient injury compensation authority to a person with chronic fatigue syndrome (also called myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME) in 2003 following the trials, reportedly 70 more people who took part have been diagnosed with the condition. After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette withoutbreaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers. - Harris L. Coulter, PhD

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